Posted
Across the Channel, large companies are struggling to get their employees back to the office after a long period of telecommuting. To attract their employees to the premises, they offer them money or new benefits.
In London (United Kingdom), some employers are pulling out all the stops in order to bring their employees back to telework. Office attendance is still only 50% compared to the pre-pandemic. An investment fund that offers acting lessons to its employees, companies that organize parties with colleagues, with free beer and food … Or a consulting firm that offers 1,200 euros to each of its 22,000 employees in the United Kingdom, against compulsory attendance at the office once or twice a week.
These large companies are offering these benefits because they can afford it and because it is in their best interests. Those that allow dogs in the office, for example, prevent employees who adopted during confinement from leaving for a competitor who is more flexible on teleworking. “To be able to take care of [mon chien] all day long and seeing him surrounded by other dogs was a great relief“Says Gabriella Stacey, Administrative Manager at Trust in Soda.” And it saves me money because I don’t need to keep it. “But the full return of workers to the office is still a long way off: in a survey, 52% of Britons say they are ready to quit rather than giving up telecommuting altogether.